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Harry's hot, but doesn't top most-read list
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Share on DiggChildren have embraced the Harry Potter books in recent years, but the largest survey ever of youthful reading in the United States, being released today, reveals that none of J.K. Rowling's books has dislodged longtime favorites as the most-read.
Here are the favorites at each grade level, determined by the 78.5 million books read by more than 3 million children who logged on to the Wisconsin-based Renaissance Learning website to take quizzes on books they read last year:
First grade: "Green Eggs and Ham," Dr. Seuss
Second grade: "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," Laura Numeroff
Third grade: "Charlotte's Web," E.B. White
Fourth grade: "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing," Judy Blume
Fifth grade: "Bridge to Terabithia," Katherine Paterson
Sixth grade: "Hatchet," Gary Paulsen
Seventh grade: "The Outsiders," S.E. Hinton
Eighth grade: "The Outsiders"
Ninth-12th grade: "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee
Turn to A5 for top five books in each level.
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